One Campaign to Kick Start Youth Activism with Clinton Global Initiative, MTV

WASHINGTON, D.C.- ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History will join MTV and the Clinton Global Initiative to urge young people to get active in the work to conquer extreme global poverty.

“We are out to transform our world — no small task.  Achieving this goal will take the passion and energy that young Americans have in spades.  Their creativity, their determination, their idealism — all are essential to finally putting an end to extreme global poverty and disease,” ONE President & CEO Susan McCue said.

On September 29, ONE will join with MTV and the Clinton Global Initiative at the Apollo Theater in New York City for a frank conversation with President Bill Clinton, Bono, Chris Rock, Shakira and Alicia Keys, to focus on the ways young people can give back to their communities here in the United States and make a difference in the lives of people living in the poorest places on the planet.

The Clinton Global Initiative, a nonpartisan project of the Clinton Foundation, is a three-day annual conference that seeks to find innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.  The discussion and concert will be webcast live on ONE.org, Think.MTV.com and keepachildalive.org, with a special on the day’s events to be later broadcast on MTV, mtvU and MTV Tr3?s.

ONE is a coalition of 2.4 million Americans from all ages and walks of life and 150 of the country’s best-known and respected advocacy and humanitarian organizations.  All of these voices have banded together as ONE to bring hope and opportunity to a generation in the world’s poorest countries.

“Young people believe in the ideal America, the America that gives a hand to those in the greatest need around the world.  They believe that they truly can make a difference in this world — and they are right.  At CGI, we hope to attract new voices and new ideas to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease,” McCue said.